skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that matter, even if you can't pay cash you shouldn't get lulled into assuming you have to take the dealer's financing. Shop around a bit, see if you can find a loan where only the bank gets a piece of the pie, instead of both the bank and the dealer. For my last purchase, my credit union gave me about half the rate the dealer offered.

But don't let them know that until they're getting ready to fill out a loan application.
If you're referring to mandatory filtering no - it never happened. Despite the communications minister announcing it. A large ISP also won a major test case against big media about having to report file sharers. Turns out they dont have to. So right now it's not so bad but I'm waiting for the nanny state to fight back.
The Value of Circular Definitions: stats & graphs on structure of human language
Unfortunately AFAIK Stripe is still limited to US and a few others I think, Beta in Canada. No Europe. This is quite a limiting factor.
While its true that the value is in learning and not the certification, it is also true that assignments have a specific role to serve.

If learning is truly your motive and you are unable to do the assignments, well just don't do them. Why even go as far as cheating.
if anyone can simply grow some seeds and sell them, that will reduce/destroy the monetary incentive for creating new varieties of plants

This is a similar argument to copyright law, which lots of us hackers are familiar with. Open Source software is software that everyone can copy all the time, and it has certainly been productive and innovative. Does that disprove your theory that without protections there will be innovation? (Or is this differnet?)
I found it annoying when people were submitting answers to Stripe's CTF before the end date - just seemed to cheapen the experience - and would imagine for someone not cheating in the class that they might feel the same way.

(on a side note - did anyone get their CTF tshirt yet?)
Dealers generally hate sites like CarWoo and TrueCar:

http://forum.dealerrefresh.com/f46/carwoo-anyone-2746.html

Search that forum for lots of lovely language from the dealers about those two. TrueCar is particularly despised.

There is some positive feedback from dealers about CarWoo though, more so than TrueCar, so perhaps they figured out a thing or two better.
In the past I've done similar amounts using a wire transfer service like Travelex ... from memory, it was a fixed fee (not a % commission) & the exchange rate was good. You just pay them cash over the counter.

The exchange rate is where standard banks often make a killing when doing a wire transfer.
> Given two resumes, one with a big bullet list of unverified skills, and one with a bullet list of some completed coursera courses, which would you choose?

I would accept neither as evidence of anything other than the skills a candidate advertises.

IOW, I trust "I know Scala" on a resume exactly as much as "I know Scala and completed a Coursera course on it".
We had this problem at rsync.net ... the price of our main consumable tripling overnight, etc.

We really never considered "shucking" external drives, since the drives inside these enclosures are the worst spec'd, highest failure rate drives ... never mind the (usually) nonsensical enterprise vs. non-enterprise, they're just crummy drives.

Good for BB for making it work ...

BTW, hard drive price weirdness continues to this day - 3TB Hitachi enterprise drives two months ago were $198 (or so) and last week they were $248 (or so).
Just wondering - would you put a certificate from Coursera on your resume? I raised this question a while ago in here : http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/2074/showing-co...

Also - cases will be handled on an individual basis - I guess it's not a standard sized class. There is a few hundred people signed up at least. Putting up a free course in functional programming seems like a lot of work. On top of that, trying to find people who are cheating and handling them more or less individually is a bit of a time waste in my opinion.
Considering the current path we are taking, it is almost inevitable that there will one day be a claim by a corporation to "own" a child due to it benefiting from its products and/or research.
Yes, but people are starting to do it. People who get wealthy tend to care about their money a lot, and are very willing to do the math and see if the big penalty at departure is higher or lower than the sustained penalty of staying.
He did call out a hypothesis and kept the first version no frills...

I agree that a Todo list is common, but noone has solved it for everyone either, just like personal schedules, i still try out multiple solutions regularly.
Heli showreel video (R/C helicopter using goggles)
Link to the latest (raw) ChemCam images : http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=62&camera...
On a somewhat related note, if Monsanto created an artificial uterus indistinguishable from a natural one, would they own the reproductive rights of the person it was implanted in?
It's a trade-off. For many people who don't understand how to figure out interest rates and payments, it gives the dealerships one more number to play with to hide the real price of the car. As others have mentioned, if you do understand it and can decipher it, it gives another place for them to make money.
I can't say I understand that. If RAM utilization is so vastly out-scaled as compared to CPU utilization, there's a significant resource use inefficiency at play.

Machines consume a baseline amount of power whether they're used or not; that power usage obviously increases with utilization, but ideally you'd have full utilization across the board.

If memory usage is so much higher than CPU usage, I have to wonder what it is that Mozilla is doing wrong with their architecture. Are they using pre-fork-style servers? Are they just provisioning poorly? What is it?

> CPU use is irrelevant to most internet servers.

Why? The CPU is used when the machine does anything. Ideally you're operating the machines at full capacity, less overhead to handle load spikes.

> Over the week, I operate my car engine at about 1.2% capacity. Maybe they should write about that.

What you're doing is inefficient, and they do write about that. The solution is called car sharing and public transportation.
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
Couldn't you have gone with a less link-baity title?
Actually, you can just log directly into the IEDR site to make these changes.

I've done this many times..
I agree with the gist of this, but it's worth noting that the drives that you typically buy for arrays like this are enterprise SATA drives (or at least 24/7 duty cycle desktop drives) and the drives inside the enclosures are the bottom of the barrel ...
I agree that the main issue is calling it a startup. But I see nothing wrong with redoing something existing. I've been working on something similar just for the sake of having something to code on, and trying out a couple framework/technologies.
It's 2012 not 1970, I'm always amazed when people won't google something before asking a question.
Wow, that list was much larger than I expected, it seems that P(nobel | nobel in family) is orders of magnitude larger than P(nobel). It would be interesting to do a similar analysis for other prizes, e.g. Fields Medal, to see if a similar effect of motivation in the family exists in other domains.
Original paper (free): http://prx.aps.org/pdf/PRX/v2/i3/e031018

A talk by the authors: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/talks/Loops2012.pdf

Some discussions in forums suggest some possible relation with other self-referential constructs in math such as recursive functions, logical paradoxes, Godel incompleteness, etc.
So what is the catalyst that sets off "real" space exploration? Near-exhaustion of Earth's resources?
Well, it seems that Coursera business model is either issuing meaningful certificates, or offering other companies potential hires (the latter being what I've understood of Udacity business model). In both cases, the certificate is supposed to mean something.

I've taken several Coursera classes, but I don't mention them in my resume and I only care about the certificates as an incentive to complete the course, but from the very nature on how these classes are graded, it would be very difficult to prevent cheating (or sharing), barring having the exams taken in real-life locations (something that Udacity optionaly provides for some of its courses if I recall correctly).
Off topic: The snapping of the header into a fixed position on this web site is incredibly annoying. I thought my trackpad was spazing out for a bit till i realized they actually intended for the header to snap down to cover half the first paragraph, losing my place in the text in the process.
Apples naturally fail to breed true. Commercial varieties are cloned via grafting, starting from a single tree.

The popularity of hybrid corn is probably more due to the advantages that come from hybridization rather than any pernicious efforts by the producers. It's not like there are organized efforts to reduce the diversity of the seed stock that is available.
Just Add Water: A Recipe for Successful Social Media ROI
The point is that Coursera eventually does want their classes to be resume busters
Thanks to some cheaters I just discovered Coursera. And you want to punish them now... uhm :)
An important reason is security. The security of any web language is of vital importance, for obvious reasons. When you go low level or introduce umpteen different languages, maintaining the same level of security becomes increasingly challenging.

But I agree with you that JS is an unfortunate language to be stuck with (although many people appear to be content with it). I especially dislike that it's weakly typed.

Isn't Google's NativeClient something like what you're suggesting though?
Hate to be the spelling nazi here, but it's the second time you misspell Curie as Currie.
> A lot of programmers have a big tunnel vision. They want to create a 'startup' no matter what

But it is not the programmer's fault. Many incubators preach that everyone must have an ideia, no matter how awful it is.
... and you should avoid them at all costs for any serious application. To this day there is still confusion between host adaptors (raid controllers) and green drives, and the firmware management process (you will absolutely need to manage the firmware on these) is atrocious.
Lol, thats harsh. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone slips. Making mistakes is an integral part of iterating towards the better.
Some would argue that the point of Coursera is to offer education to those who cannot afford it or access it through traditional means. If I come from a poor community anywhere in the world, but have internet access, this certificate means quite a bit to me in terms of employment and opportunities (not just as a resume pad). I think for this reason alone your second alternative is more fair. Obviously, Coursera also helps to augment someone's existing knowledge, or as an educational source for a hobbyist.
Problem solved only if ALL of cousera's students need to be employed by you.
Is this true in 2012? I would love to see a study or something. Not doubting you, just curious.
Tragic. Newsworthy. Heart goes out to victim and family. NEVERTHELESS: Don't see how this belongs on HN.
So there needs to be competition between sellers of a single brand, just because some people are so brand-loyal that they would refuse to switch brands to avoid being 'taken to the cleaners?' I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment.

You're also ignoring that the brand (e.g. Chevy) is selling to all of the dealerships. If they raise the price, the dealerships all have to pay if they want the car/truck/etc. Do the dealerships really have that much bargaining power?
This was just a test satellite. It's very likely they'll be able to get it into a 'good enough' orbit to complete their testing.
Have you seen a picture of the "bright object" this post references? Unless it's in that picture and I'm just missing it.
It's not a gimmick, but it's also a double-edged sword. They also do fun things like spinning down on an aggressive timeout, which can lead to early SMART warnings about head load/unload cycles if you keep waking them up to write periodic log files to them. I had to "fix" this with a nasty little DOS utility on a home Linux box I built using Seagate's version of this.
If prices are actually expected to drop, that should already be factored into the price of hedging the commodity.
>Given two resumes, one with a big bullet list of unverified skills, and one with a bullet list of some completed coursera courses, which would you choose?

The big problem with your logic is assuming that one of these two options must be meaningful. Those two resumes are either both good enough to bring in for an interview, or both not good enough to bring in for an interview. "I have a worthless piece of paper" changes nothing.
Telecom startup. Not sure what they exited for, but revenues were $200M when I left.
"Gutenberg's printing press will end lack of knowledge as we know it!"

"Tesla's radio will end communication as we know it!"

You're right, we could do this all day.

I agree on Monsanto, I think what we have today was intended from the beginning.
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Exactly. The society needs to be able to change the rules to make them more beneficial for the society as a whole.

Can't exploit the hole anymore ? Stop whining and adapt.
I know there is one class on Coursera doing exactly that. The reason was to allow students multiple attempts at quizzes - have a bank for 20 questions where only 10 get asked.
>there is no TraceMonkey/JagerMonkey/IonMonkey

The latest date I can pin down for the beginning of the JS arms race was Safari's JavaScriptCore in March 2008, followed by SquirrelFish in June. V8 has had a huge impact in driving innovation and setting the pace of the race, but it did not fire the starter pistol.
The post itself (billed as "the one you need to read today") was exceedingly thin and mostly gobbledygook but there you go. A link to http://knappsack.com/ is worth attention.

If it gets around the problems of sharing iOS apps while under development then I am keen. (thinking about it some Android devices can be tricky to get dev code onto as well).
'Meme' has become accepted terminology within various internet communities for a particular format of captioned image:

http://www.quickmeme.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme

Whilst the majority of them aren't particularly funny, this application of the word 'meme' makes perfect sense within both the dictionary definition and Dawkins' original usage:

"an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Looks like it might be both. It's inserting Google's tiles as an overlay on Apple's map view, and it's also hitting Google's API when you search for something: https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/ClassicMap/blob/master/C...
It's a great concept, especially the no login part.

A few things I'd like to see:

1) private lists
2) assign to-dos to certain team members
3) set up priorities
4) set up deadlines

Cheers,
Aanarav
"Cheating" is not "making a mistake".
RAID5, they can only sustain one failure.
But then Backblaze's use of HDDs is not the same as an HDD stuck in a desktop machine and used as a primary/secondary drive.

It's why their restore isn't instantaneous. You have to ask for the files and they'll let you know when they're ready, this takes time (up to several hours).

AIUI they essentially fill up each Pod with incoming data and, when it's full it goes into a low power mode where they spin down all of the disks in that Pod.

Restore requests (from many users) will usually span quite a few Pods so they batch up requests for each Pod so that can minimise the number of times that drives in a Pod need to be spun up to copy off files. Rather than spinning up and down once every 10 minutes to service 36 requests over 6 hours they wait 6 hours, spin up once and service all 36 requests for that pod in one go. (Figures are for example only.)

(Small restores may be instantaneous if the Pod is still being filled or just happens to be spun up for restore soon. Large restores will more than likely span multiple pods and so there's more of a delay until all parts of the restore have been obtained from all of the pods involved.)

If anything this maps pretty well to the expected usage pattern of an HDD in an external enclosure as many of them are used for infrequent backups rather than extending constant use storage. It's how I expect Backblaze will be hoping to get much more than the usual MTBF out of their drives they have purchased.

HDD guarantees may be time based, but HDD failure rates are linked much more closely with usage patterns; number of spin-ups/downs, number of seeks, number of sector writes, etc. A drive in constant use on a desktop machine is going to be hammered a lot more than one that's essentially written to just once (as the pod fills up) and then spun up every now and again for partial reads.
the guy asked for feedback on his product, not his life decisions. to make the leap is presumptuous, pompous, and, yes, unnecessarily negative. there are polite ways of giving negative feedback, for instance you might have said: "hey thanks for posting. looks like you've done a good job putting it together. i worry that there isn't a market for it, though, given all the competition that currently exists and people's general inability to monetize these sorts of products. maybe use this as a jumping off point for something else?" instead, your original comment is full of vitriol and, in one fell swoop, you've managed to put down the creators of "thousands of project management apps, hour tracker apps, wannabe social networks, twitter sentiment tools, accounting apps, photo filter apps, a/b testing websites, etc." you, sir, must surely be without flaw to make such broad and sweeping generalizations about your fellow community members.

it continues to amaze how certain members of this community cannot recognize the vast chasm of constructive criticism that lies between the extremes of '[telling] him that the idea is awesome and that he will become a millionaire' and telling him he has wasted his time working on an idea that "isn't even a real idea" (and we won't even address the absurdity of that last sentence...).
Also, braid hair in Utah: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/22/155596305/episode-...

(I think this was reversed since the story)
It sounds really interesting, but it still doesn't answer the question of how you are able to offer this service at that price? Is there something we don't know?
From customers to rabid fans
I don't see an ethical issue here. BackBlaze came up with a creative solution to a supply chain problem. I see it like there not being enough food to go around; it doesn't make sense for everyone to starve to death. If BackBlaze had started the drive shortage, that'd be a different issue, but they found a way to survive in a tough spot.
It actually does hit Google for the search:

https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/ClassicMap/blob/master/C...

Here's the URL it's hitting:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=[whatever_you_entered_in_the_search field]&sensor=true
Make sure you get properly licensed before you release this in any significant way; The Tetris Company is well-known for its litigious nature.
Yeah, that was rude AND wrong. You have NO idea what the OPs goals are with this. It could be his first independent project ever just to get his feet wet. Even if he DOES have great ambitions for it, you don't need to be terribly innovative to win.

Build something that attacks a clear need, has clear competition, and comes at the market from a slightly different angle and you can oftentimes build a huge business just by executing well. Trello? Asana? Sprint.ly? All doing REALLY WELL. I know a couple of guys who built "twitter sentiment tools" recently. They launched into a crowded market of people doing the same thing. They're now nearly 30 people strong and are doing millions in revenue per year. In big and/or growing markets, there's nearly infinite opportunity.
You have a point, but not a very solid point looking at the past of a lot of companies. I find most of these tools lacking (for instance, I find Basecamp rather unusable and really don't like to work with it as it makes me less efficient). If I find them lacking, other people have that same feeling. I'm not saying there is a big market per se for these kind of tools, but there is a market. When tools like Jira, Basecamp, RememberTheMilk and many, many others came to the market, there were tons of them at that time as well and yet they made it big, 2 of them well over $100 million / year businesses. With Stackoverflow you could say there were enough sites 'doing the same'.

Usually even if the US is DROWNING in startups or even grown up companies doing what you want to do, you can probably make a solid, well run business in your own country if you are outside the US. In big countries there are even regions where this works.

And scratching your itch is fun and it's always good to actually FINISH something, even though you won't make money with it.
I don't know enough about the law and trademark and parody to know comment on the legal aspects of this, but I have to say that I actually appreciated the tone of SurveyMonkey's attorney's letter.
No, it's still a developer's fault. Just because people say to do something doesn't mean to do it. Likewise, many other parties preach something different.

Building out a full app then testing out a hypothesis was probably a waste of time. Putting up a landing page and promoting out to his network would likely have yielded very similar results - people saying "we don't need another todo list". faster, and cheaper.
A meme is a cultural unit. It can be an image or video, but also a belief or idea. It's like a gene, but in culture. So a "funny image with captions" might be a meme, but that neither means that every "funny image with captions" is a meme, nor that you can send all kinds of memes with that page. Thus the description is wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IvnptQJ__U

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.

But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.

The world is often unkind to new talents, new creations. The new needs friends.

Last night, I experienced something new; an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking, is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, 'Anyone can cook.'

But I realize — only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more."

-- Anton Ego, "Ratatouille"
The correct analogy would be if Monsanto created genetically engineered humans who are immune to certain diseases, but made them sterile, and then sued them when they managed to procreate anyway.

These seeds are functionally different from ordinary seeds, and Monsanto is claiming patents on any seeds that contain the similar DNA.